Can you help me quit smoking?!
Question: I have been smoking for many years. It is a filthy disgusting habit. But it is an addiction. I've tried a few times to quit when I wasn't really ready. I'm ready now but I want to know what has really worked permanently for others out there before I begin. I cannot cold turkey and I cannot do the gum. Thanks!
Answers: I have been smoking for many years. It is a filthy disgusting habit. But it is an addiction. I've tried a few times to quit when I wasn't really ready. I'm ready now but I want to know what has really worked permanently for others out there before I begin. I cannot cold turkey and I cannot do the gum. Thanks!
Well it sounds like your attitude is your biggest obstacle. You know it is nasty and you know you want to quit so now you have to convince yourself that you can quit.
It really is more of a mental battle than a physical one. Upon cessation nicotine remains in your body for only three days. Any physical effects you may feel after that are completly in your head. Then it becomes a pretty tough mental battle but it is very possible to win. My brother recently went cold turkey and after a month or two he is totaly past the hard part. He claims he doesn't even think about it anymore.
It may sound silly but it is just a matter of wanting it, and simply NOT smoking. Your attitude as of now is that you can't quit. You don't think you can do it so you probably won't. You need to realize that many many people have been where you are right now and many of them have made it through. Once you realize this than you really can quit.
You say you can't go cold turkey because your brain doesn't want to. Your brain has become so addicted to nicotine that it is convincing itself, and you, by any means necessary to continue smoking. It is called "protecting your addiction". The same reason why people say "I'll quit on new years, or, I'll stop when I turn 30 or 40 etc.." It is total B.S. These are just ways to allow yourself to smoke. Why put off something so important? Cause they are truly addicts. A crack head will do anything for the next hit right? So what do you think the brain is capable of in order to get the next puff? It will decieve you and lie to you. And it is easy to be decieved cause after all it is your brain. This is where you must realize that your brain doesn't know what is best. All it knows is that it is used to this drug and it wants you to continue supplying it. You have to step in and regulate. The brain will makes excuses and offer compromises like " When we drink I get to smoke, or, if we only smoke one a day then it won't even matter". Shut up brain your full of ****. The truth is that when you really do quit for good, these compromises won't be necessary for either of you. You will look back and see it for what it really was. Just another excuse.
This is just one way of looking at it. However, I would be willing to bet that more people quit succsesfuly going cold trukey because they have finaly decided to really do it. There are no miracle drugs on the market that are more powerful than your sheer will. Now some things work for some people and you may have luck with those methods but why leave it to chance? If you decide to stop for good, and from this day forth never light another cigarette... well my friend that makes you a quitter.
Enjoy your new found freedom.
This may help you and it may not. There is really good info at the site listed below that WILL help you if you let it. Read up, get some support, it is just like any other addiction it helps to have someone to talk to in times of weakness. Whats a few months for the rest of your life?
um, we cant really help you on yahoo answers!
Try Nicopatch.
You have the one thing it takes to stop...
The desire...
Keep at it ..its gets easier day by day..
Good luck...
it hard, but possible, it's all you, only you can decide to quit smoke
Well u just have to make urself do that cuz then it'll never happen. try looking up some ads or look out for the commercials on t.v. and try what they say. be confident that u can do it and u will. good luck. try ur best and you'll quit soon enough. =)
Find something to motivate you. For me, it's money. I used to smoke two packs a week. So to start out I was only allowed a pack and a half, and then that was cut down to one and the saved $5 went into a jar. Over the next few months I kept cutting my intake until I didn't smoke anymore. It was kind of hard the first couple weeks after fully quitting, but I'd saved so much money already that I used it to get myself little treats as a reward. That was over a year ago, and I still stick $10 in the fun jar every week.
sorry i dont know
well i did the cold turkey and thats how i quit. it killed me the first thee or four days and then it became easy.
so suck it up, and take the beating.
Smoking related-diseases kill one in 10 adults globally, or cause four million deaths. By 2030, if current trends continue, smoking will kill one in six people.
Every eight seconds, someone dies from tobacco use.
Cigarettes cause more than one in five American deaths.
There is enough nicotine in four or five cigarettes to kill an average adult if ingested whole.
Ambergris, otherwise known as whale vomit is one of the hundreds of possible additives used in manufactured cigarettes.
If those facts/statistics aren't enough to make you stop I don't know what will. Smoking is absolutely horrible for you, and everyone around you.
I'm afraid that the best way really is cold turkey. The fact that you can't do it, or say you can't, suggests that you're not really committed to stopping.
If you use gum or patches, you just substitute one source of nicotine for another and it will take forever.
When people hear that cold turkey stopping is very hard to do, they just seem to translate that into 'impossible', but it's not. It's just hard but very achievable if you're brave.
Get a patch and wear it. If you want more proof...go to Yahoo, and click Images. Then enter Lung cancer in the search line. Look at them all. Then grow up, stub out the cancer stick and chew the gum. You do not want to die like this. But if that isn't enough....try ruptured abdominal aneurysm, kills within 90 minutes as you bleed to death internally and they can't save you, by the way, once it ruptures. Try emphysema, or try mouth and throat cancers...Get it now?
I smoked for seven years and tried to quit about ten times before finally succeeding. When I finally stopped smoking, (twelve years ago) it was a combination of factors that allowed it to happen.
#1) I joined a gym, and started lifting weights and running at least three times a week WITHOUT FAIL. This was when I was still smoking. I noticed that the smoking interfered with my workouts and that the less I smoked, the better my workouts were.
#2) I asked a girl out who was a non-smoker. Wow, talk about motivation! I knew I had to put the brakes on or she'd probably end up going out with someone who didn't have yellow teeth and smelled like an ashtray.
#3) Nicotine gum. (I know you said you couldn't use the gum, I'm just telling you what worked for me.) Whenever possible, I went mad with the nicotine gum. If you miss a piece it doesn't work! You have to be chewing it constantly for it to help you.
Six months later I was off the cigarettes and off the gum, the girl is now my wife and I'm benching 180. Wow! Thank god for cigarettes!!! \(^o^)/
First, congratulate yourself on deciding to quit. I work in a hospital, and if you only knew how many people would be so much more healthy if they decided to quit smoking.
You might want to your doctor about this. He/she might be able to provide a lot more options that over the counter aids. However, you shouldn't use more than one quit smoking aid at a time. Patches are a good idea. And they're a lot less expensive than they used to be. Wal-Mart even has an equate brand. My mom tried these little suckers that had nicotine in them. She got them from a pharmacy. They help with the hand/mouth fixation bit. There are also lozenges you can suck on instead of chewing gum. The suckers didn't work for my mom, but suprisingly, hypnotism did. I don't believe much in it, but if you do, you could give it a shot.
There's also a prescription your doctor can prescribe called Chantix. It works wonders.
i read in a magazine that it is easier for female to TRY to quit smoking wen they are on their periods.
No offense, but you are weak. If you want to quit, just quit.
It's that simple. Try using sugar-free chewing gum to soothe your nerves and just simply don't smoke.
It really is that simple, but you have to stop pitying yourself by
claiming you are helpless.
Do it cold turkey BUT watch videos of people dieing of lung cancer. Go on you tube and type in "lung cancer" without the quotations and watch all the sad videos of people with lung cancer or kids with parents who are dieing of lung cancer. Maybe this will give you some motivation to quit, unless you want lung cancer.
think of someone you love or a dream of yours. then next time you reach for one think of which is more important to you.
theres this guy i like who has major issues and i had a narcotic addiction a cutting problem and couldnt stop drinking alcohol and i realized i had to stop before i helped him. i have stopped completely. im 15 btw, so if i can do it so can you. theres always hope. be strong ?